SUMMARY: Tami Suematsu, age 19, died August 19, 1988 after a legal abortion done by Vern Wagner at Riverside Family Planning Center, a Family Planning Associates facility in Los Angeles.
Abortionist Vernon Wagner
Documents regarding Tami Suematsu, age 19, alleged that she underwent a safe and legal abortion by Vern Wagner at Riverside Family Planning Center in Los Angeles on August 19, 1988.
Tami went into bronchial spasm and asthma-related respiratory failure then cardiac arrest. She was transported to a hospital, but died shortly after arrival.
Documents regarding Tami Suematsu, age 19, alleged that she underwent a safe and legal abortion by Vern Wagner at Riverside Family Planning Center in Los Angeles on August 19, 1988.
Tami went into bronchial spasm and asthma-related respiratory failure then cardiac arrest. She was transported to a hospital, but died shortly after arrival.
Riverside Family Planning was a Family Practice Associates Medical Group facility and thus a member of the prestigious National Abortion Federation.
Other patients known to have died after abortion at FPA facilities include
Sources: LA County Autopsy File No. 64442; California Death Certificate 38833005990